60: A dimensional reduction attack from a seasoned veteran from Earth!

On the way back to the Purple Cloud Holy Land courtyard, the moonlight was like water, quietly sprinkling onto the path paved with bluestone slabs, stretching the shadows of the two people long and short.

The oppressive silence of the journey was finally broken. In Luo Bingli's eyes, clear as a cold pool, flickered a curiosity and confusion so thick it couldn't be dissolved.

She finally couldn't hold back, softly asking, "Master, forgive Bingli for being slow-witted, but how... how exactly did you see through the disguises of Ji Wuye and the others with just a glance? Their words and actions seemed flawless to me."

Hearing this, Lin Chen did not answer immediately. He paused, turned his head, and his profound gaze swept over the courtyard wall toward the few warm lights within the compound.

Under the lamplight, the graceful figures of Ziyan, Lin Xiaoya, Bai Ruoxue, and others were faintly visible, seemingly stirring slightly because they sensed his return. He could clearly feel the concern and anticipation that belonged solely to him, even from this distance.

Seeing this scene, a complicated, hard-to-read smile curved Lin Chen's lips. His eyes flashed with a trace of nostalgia, a trace of amusement, and a profound light of insight into worldly affairs.

However, he did not speak, because this was something he couldn't reveal.

Because!

He came from a world where men vastly outnumbered women.

There, the methods women used to compete for outstanding men—sowing discord, forming cliques, two-faced behavior, praising someone to death, slandering... were hundreds of times more spectacular than the 'playing house' tactics used by the men of this world.

Female Competition is the oldest and most brutal art of war in the universe!

Lin Chen, the sole "outsider" from Blue Star, possessed a precious wealth that no man in this world had—a deep understanding of Female Competition and rich experience in Dimensional Reduction Strikes!

What he needed to do now was quietly watch Ji Wuye and his group of fools go back and report, leading them and the Queens behind them step by step into the gentle trap he had carefully prepared.

Then, he would use the art of "Female Competition," which they were most familiar with and proud of, to thoroughly manipulate them into the palm of his hand!

Meanwhile, on the other side.

"I can see for myself."

These five understated words from Lin Chen, yet filled with supreme penetration, were like five invisible, sharp swords stabbing fiercely into the hearts of Ji Wuye and the others!

The smiles on their faces froze completely.

An indescribable chill shot up from the soles of their feet straight to their crowns!

(He... he saw through it?!)

(No! Impossible! The disguise was so perfect! How could he possibly...)

At this moment, those calm, dark eyes, devoid of ripples, made them feel like pathetic clowns stripped naked—their darkest, most malicious, and most shameful inner thoughts had nowhere to hide!

Lin Chen's final pat on the shoulder, meant as "encouragement" and "praise," felt more like the loudest slap across their faces!

He was silently declaring that their petty, unsophisticated tricks were nothing more than a childish and ridiculous farce.

After speaking, he did not look again at these "peers" who were plunged into shock and terror. He turned and left directly, taking Luo Bingli and Ziyan with him.

From beginning to end, he didn't spare Ji Wuye and the others a single extra glance.

It was as if they were just annoying flies buzzing by the roadside.

It wasn't until Lin Chen's figure completely vanished around the courtyard corner that the extremely oppressive aura finally dispersed.

"Huu... huu..."

Ji Wuye and the others gasped for air, as if exhausted, their bodies drenched in cold sweat.

They looked at each other, their eyes filled with bone-deep terror!

"He... he knows..." Murong Bai of the Mystic Water Holy Palace said, his voice trembling.

"He knows everything..."

"Then... what do we do now?!" A disciple from a Minor Sect cried out in panic.

"What do we do?"

A look of savage madness flashed in Ji Wuye's eyes. He gritted his teeth and forced out a few words:

"We go back!"

"And we exaggerate the report!"

The appeasement policy had failed completely; next, they could only resort to the final malicious tactics—praising him to death and sowing discord!

He wanted the Queens to believe that Lin Chen was arrogant and conceited, had no value for recruitment!

He was the common enemy of all the top Holy Lands!

(Inside the Crimson Sun Divine Palace Courtyard)

Ji Wuye respectfully knelt before the treasure mirror that burned with fierce flames.

Slowly, the beautiful yet majestic face of the First Imperial Daughter, High-Grade Fertilizer, appeared on the mirror surface.

"How did the matter go?" High-Grade Fertilizer's voice was devoid of emotion.

"Reporting, Your Highness!"

Ji Wuye's face instantly shifted to an expression full of "grievance," "fury," and "unwavering loyalty"!

He began his "report," heavily exaggerating the details!

"Your Highness! That Lin Chen is simply... a lunatic! A rebel who attempts to overthrow the order of the entire world!"

With his first sentence, he slapped an enormous label onto Lin Chen!

"Oh?"

On the mirror surface, the beautiful phoenix eyes of High-Grade Fertilizer showed a trace of genuine seriousness for the first time.

"Your Highness! Your subordinates originally intended to recruit and test him according to your instructions. But not only did he reject our goodwill, he also subjected us to every kind of humiliation!"

"He said..."

Ji Wuye paused, then continued in an extremely exaggerated tone full of "horror" and "disbelief":

"He said that all of us men who rely on women are a bunch of spineless 'soft-legged shrimps'! The disgrace of manhood!"

Hearing this, a flicker of disdainful mockery crossed High-Grade Fertilizer's face. In her view, this was merely the ridiculous jealousy between men.

However.

Ji Wuye's next words instantly froze the mockery on her face!

"He also said..."

Ji Wuye's voice became increasingly "tremulous," as if he were repeating a "treasonous" statement capable of changing the color of heaven and earth!

"He said this world dominated by women is fundamentally a deformed, flawed, and sick world!"

"He said that when the hidden dragon list Grand Competition arrives, he will step on all the 'Heavenly Proud Daughters' of our Holy Lands!"

"He wants everyone to see that women are only fit to be men's subordinates!"

"He wants to turn all of us high and mighty women into the same kind of women as those around him..."

"—Male! Consorts!"

BOOM—!!!

"Male! Consorts!"

These two words were like ten thousand bolts of the most vicious Nine Heavens Divine Thunder!

They struck fiercely against the proud, "Queen's" heart of High-Grade Fertilizer!

"Impudence!!!"

A fierce shout, filled with endless fury and monstrous killing intent, suddenly exploded from the treasure mirror!

A terrifying pressure belonging to a Half-step Nascent Soul cultivator descended violently, even passing through the mirror surface!

It pressed down on Ji Wuye, preventing him from even raising his head!

High-Grade Fertilizer's beautiful face on the mirror surface was now completely covered in frost!

In her phoenix eyes, burning like the sun, raged a monstrous fury capable of incinerating the Eight Desolations!

Overthrow the world?

Women only fit to be subordinates?

Turn her, High-Grade Fertilizer, into a... Male Consort?!

Arrogant!

Seeking death!

Deserves ten thousand deaths!

"Did he truly say that?!"

Her voice was so cold it seemed capable of freezing a person's soul solid!

"Absolutely... absolutely true!" Ji Wuye trembled with fear but didn't forget to continue poisoning the well. "Your Highness! This child's wolfish ambition is laid bare! If he is not eliminated, he will surely become a grave threat to us all!"

"Hmph!"

High-Grade Fertilizer coldly snorted, the killing intent in her eyes almost solidifying!

"Just a frog at the bottom of a well who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"And he dares to speak wildly of overthrowing heaven and earth?!"

"I will personally crush his bones inch by inch during the Grand Competition!"

"I will let him know what the true rules are!"

...At the same time, nearly the same script was simultaneously playing out in the courtyards of the Mystic Water Holy Palace, Hundred Flowers Valley, and other major powers. Without exception, the men "humiliated" by Lin Chen chose to distort the facts with the most malicious language, furiously drawing hatred toward Lin Chen!

Meanwhile, inside the Myriad Sword Pavilion Courtyard.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it was almost dripping water.

Li Hanyue, Zhao Qian, and others were kneeling on the ground, weeping uncontrollably, their faces tear-streaked, as if they had suffered the greatest injustice.

Standing before them was the Nascent Soul Elder who resembled a vengeful spirit—Extinction Sword Crone!

"Wuwuwu... Elder... You... you must uphold justice for us!" Li Hanyue wiped away "non-existent" tears with her sleeve, starting her "tearful accusation" in a tone that reversed black and white, full of "grief" and "help lessness"!

"We... we were flying our airship properly, heading toward Qianlong City."

"Who knew... who knew that the Purple Cloud Holy Land's airship would crash into us fiercely from behind like it was crazy!"

"Considering we were fellow sects of the Tianfeng Kingdom, we originally didn't want to argue with them. But... but they not only showed no remorse but also relied on their numbers to subject us to every kind of humiliation!"

She paused, her voice becoming increasingly "piteous," as if recalling some unbearable scene.

"Senior Sister... Senior Sister Sword Unparalleled, she only wanted to step forward and reason with them."

"But... but that man! That fiend named Lin Chen! He... he actually attacked Senior Sister without a word, using an extremely vicious Evil Technique!"

"Not only that!"

Zhao Qian added, weeping bitterly at this point!

"He also... he relied on his decent looks and openly flirted with us!"

"Saying... saying he would capture us all to be his... Playthings!"

"We... we swore we would rather die than submit! He... he then flew into a rage, destroyed our airship, and even... killed Senior Sister!"

Reversing black and white!

The villain making the first accusation!

Perfectly packaging themselves as innocent, perfect victims who were "bullied" for "refusing Unspoken Rules"!

This was the true logic of the Myriad Sword Pavilion's Scoundrels!

Sure enough!

After listening to their "tearful accusation," Extinction Sword Crone's face, already resembling a vengeful spirit, was instantly covered by a layer of cold, monstrous killing intent!

There was not an ounce of doubt in her cloudy, aged eyes!

Because, in her perception, and that of most women in this world.

—men were exactly this kind of despicable, shameless, vulgar trash who only thought with their lower bodies... Scum!

"A man..."

"Dares to actively provoke the dignity of my Myriad Sword Pavilion?"

"Dares to covet the disciples of my Myriad Sword Pavilion?"

"And... killed, Unparalleled?!"

Her voice was hoarse and filled with heart-stopping... chilling killing intent!

"Elder! You must avenge Senior Sister!" Li Hanyue wailed. "That man is truly too evil! We... we are simply no match for him!"

"Hmph! Trash!"

Extinction Sword Crone snorted coldly, a trace of unconcealed contempt flashing in her eyes.

This curse of "Trash" was aimed both at Lin Chen and at the fools before her who had disgraced the sect!

"Since the overt rules cannot kill him."

Her voice sounded as if it came from the Nine Nether Hell, yet carried a hint of cat-and-mouse smugness.

"Then we will... use more sophisticated rules to play him to death!"

"Remember this."

"Only fools obey the rules."

"True powerhouses know how to... utilize the rules, or even transcend them!"

As her voice fell, she issued an order in an unquestionable tone!

"Pass on my command!"

"Spare no expense! Contact our Informant in the Sky Patrol Hall!"

"Tell her that I require two 'VIP Slots' that can 'reasonably' bypass the restrictions of the Fallen Dragon Valley!"

BOOM—!!!

At these words, Li Hanyue, Zhao Qian, and the others were stunned simultaneously!

Immediately after!

Their faces, which had been full of grief and helplessness, were instantly replaced by fanatical expressions filled with "excitement," "worship," and "sudden realization"!

Cheating?

No!

How is this cheating?!

This was clearly a perfect Dimensional Reduction Strike executed by leveraging one's "connections" and "resources"!

"El... Elder! You... you mean..." Li Hanyue's voice trembled due to excessive excitement.

"Exactly!"

A crazed, sinister smile appeared on Extinction Sword Crone's face!

"Although the rules of that secret realm will suppress cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage, reducing my cultivation to the Half-step Nascent Soul stage."

"But..."

Her voice was filled with the utmost cruel pleasure!

"Do you think a 'Nascent Soul' cultivator whose cultivation has been suppressed!"

"Going to 'fairly' duel a late Golden Core stage brat!"

"Does that count as 'obeying' the rules of the Grand Competition? Hehehehe..."

This was the height of shamelessness!

This was the most brilliant logic of a Myriad Sword Pavilion "Scoundrel"!

"Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"

"Elder is wise! This is true great wisdom!"

"That man thought he was so remarkable? Before you, Elder, he is just a fool who only knows how to use brute force!"

Li Hanyue and the others instantly turned into the most loyal Sycophants, frantically praising their Elder's "shrewdness" and "wisdom"!

In their eyes, this ability to manipulate the rules within the palm of one's hand was the true demeanor of a "Big Shot"!

They worshipped her completely!

As Extinction Sword Crone looked at the disciples who had been completely "won over" by her, the smug smile on her face grew wider.

She could already foresee.

The splendidly desperate expression on the face of that ignorant brat when he suddenly saw her, a "Nascent Soul" cultivator, descend into the secret realm.

To be safe, she even planned to bring along another Nascent Soul helper whose cultivation would also be suppressed!

They were going to use this most shameless—no, most shrewd and most unreasonable method!—to completely obliterate Lin Chen within that supposedly "fair" secret realm!